The Paradise of Parrots

The presence of trees thickly crowned with foliage is an essential requisite for the comfortable lodgement of parrots. This they require not so much as a protection against the weather as for a secure hiding place. In playing their game of hide and seek, both the color of their feathers and the cunning so peculiar to all parrots contribute to their safety. They do not want to be seen. A man may know that there are fifty of them in a tree and not see one. The shrill screams of the birds, the noise caused by the fluttering of their wings, and the rattling of the leaves of the palm trees was so deafening that he was heartily glad when he escaped